Chemicals In our Daily Life.


Chemicals are everywhere you go and in everything you use. In your food, medicine, cleaning products (toothpaste, soap, shampoo, ext.), crop yields, and many other things.




Medicines:

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Antacids ~ Contains Magnesium hydroxide, magnesium carbonate, magnesium trisilicate, aluminium hydroxide gel, sodium bicarbonate,aluminium phosphate, prazole, and lansoprazole. These chemicals are used in antacids in order to remove the extra acid in the stomach that excesses.

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Tylenol ~ Cellulose, corn starch, FD&C Red #40, hypromellose, magnesium stearate, polyethylene glycol, sodium starch glycolate. These things help in Headache. Muscular aches. Backache. Minor pain of arthritis. common cold. Toothache. Flu.


Food preservatives:

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Dried fruit ~ Sulfur dioxide, sulfites, bisulfites. which is used by human beings and keeps them surviving and healthy.


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Bread ~ contains Sodium or calcium propionate.

Crop Yield:


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Potatoes ~ Potatoes contain at least sixty percent of Potassium and also holds Iron in it too, which gives it less work for the kidneys

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Barley ~ Contains mostly Zinc, Manganese, and Copper.

Sanitation:

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Toothpaste ~ antimony, arsenic, mercury or selenium, Boron, gallium, iron, magnesium, manganese and titanium. all these elements that toothpaste contains help in keeping clean. Also some are used to help the body in case of swallow while brushing teeth.

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Traditional Shampoo ~ Sodium lauryl sulfate in shampoo help clean but should be avoided by everyday use. Another ingredient iscocoamide diethanolamine and ammonium laureth sulfate which should also be avoided by use of everyday.




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Resources:

Information:

Brune, D.. "Chemicals in Medicines." Transtutors. N.p., Dec. 1980. Web. 1 Jan. 2010. <http://www.transtutors.com/chemistry-homework-help/chemistry-in-action/chemicals-in-medicines.aspx>.

"Overviews and Uses." Tylenol . McNeil Consumer Healthcare,
1998. Web. 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.tylenol.com/product_detail.jhtml;jsessionid=
RJRBRGCAYQKUGCQPCCGSUYYKB2IIQNSC?id=tylenol/hdache/prod_ex.inc∏=subpex&_requestid=462986#>.

"Chemical food preservatives." NCBI. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.agen.ufl.edu/~chyn/age4660/lect/lect_25/foodpres.htm>.

"Barley." Agric. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/pc_92012.html2s=1658443747p:>

"Potato."
Herbs2000. 2002. Web. 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.herbs2000.com/h_menu/v_potato.htm>.

Bap, Kim "Chemicals in Traditional Shampoo." Chemicals in Traditional Shampoo. 13 Jul. 2009 EzineArticles.com. 16 Mar. 2010 <http://ezinearticles.com/?Chemicals- in- Traditional- Shampoo&id=2600602>.

"Minor and trace inorganic components of toothpastes.." NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information . 7 Oct. 2008. Web. 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6941366>.


Images:


Image one:
Antacids. Weather.Com. Web. 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.weather.com/web/multimedia/images/antacids.jpg>.

Image two:

Tylenol caplets spilling from bottle on blue background. PhotographersDirect. Web. 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.photographersdirect.com/buyers/stockphoto.asp?imageid=456921>.

Image three:

Dried Fruit. TransAtlantic Trading. Web. 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.transatlantictradinginc.com/dried%20fruit%20.JPG>.

Image Four:

Bread. The Awesome Squad. Web. 15 Mar. 2010. <http://awesomesquad.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/bread.jpg>.

Image Five:
"Potatoes."
Pesticide Information Office.. N.p., 2006. Web. 14 Mar. 2010. < http://pested.ifas.ufl.edu/newsletters/2009-03/potatoes112.jpeg>.

Image Six:
"Barley."
CALS IDAHO. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/scseldaho/variety_decriptions/vardesc_index.htm>.

Image Seven:

Toothpaste. ThinkQuest Library . Web. 15 Mar. 2010. <http://library.thinkquest.org/J002755/graphics/toothpaste.gif>.

Image Eight:

Shampoo. Drugstore//. Web. 15 Mar. 2010. <http://pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/93510/300.jpg>.